Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 9, Issue 4, 585(2016)

Water cooling radiator for solid state power supply in fast-axial-flow CO2 laser

Heng ZHAO, Bo LI, Wenjin WANG, Yi HU, and Youqing WANG*
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  • National Engineering Research Center for Laser Processing, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    Two different flow channel configurations on thermal resistances associated with the behavior of cooling of power device were studied in this paper. ANSYS Icepak 14.0 has been adopted as a numerical simulation tool. The simulation results from this study showed that the shapes of channels in cooling radiator play an important role in the thermal management of water cooling radiation system. The optimal channel design could improve the heatdissipating efficiency by 80% in water cooling radiation system. The result also indicated that the thermal resistance of heat sinks decreased with the volumetric flow rate and the number of cylindrical columns in the flow channel. Experimental results were obtained under certain channel configurations and volume rates. Moreover, the results of numerical simulation can be explained well by the experimental results.

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    Heng ZHAO, Bo LI, Wenjin WANG, Yi HU, Youqing WANG. Water cooling radiator for solid state power supply in fast-axial-flow CO2 laser[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2016, 9(4): 585

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    Paper Information

    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Dec. 15, 2014

    Accepted: Jan. 26, 2015

    Published Online: Mar. 9, 2017

    The Author Email: WANG Youqing (yqwang13@163.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-015-0502-2

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